Sugar Town

Allison Anders is an American film and television director. Anders has directed many independent films, on which she frequently collaborates with fellow UCLA film school graduate Kurt Voss. According to an article in Creative a series of adventures that often ended in jails and foster... homes—experiences she credits with giving her raw inspiration for her cinematic portraits of rural Americans." At eighteen, she moved to England, then returned to Los Angeles to raise her first child. She attended the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television and was granted a Nicholl Fellowship by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her screenplay "Lost Highway" also earned her a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award. Her first film effort co-written and co-directed by Kurt Voss and Dean Lent was the punk music-heavy Border Radio, which was nominated for Best Feature of 1989 by the Independent Feature Project. Anders followed up with her popular 1992 film Gas Food Lodging, for which she won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director, and for which actress Fairuza Balk won an Independent Spirit Award.
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Kurt Voss is an American film director, screenwriter and musician/songwriter. He often works with fellow UCLA alumnus Allison Anders. Voss's credits include: Border Radio, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Where The Day Takes You, Down and Out with the Dolls, and Sugar Town. Born as Kurt Christopher... Peter Wössner, Voss is a founding member of the West Coast punk band The Hindi Guns He is divorced from British actress Sammi Davis.
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